Public Administration

In the electronic age, documents appear to have escaped their paper confinement. But we are still surrounded by flows of paper with enormous conseq...

The Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) is not only a stunning piece of land—the first large national park created from all private lands and the ...

Bureaucrats are important symbols of the governments that employ them. Contrary to popular stereotypes, they determine much about the way policy is...

Communicating Across Cultures: A Coursebook on Interpreting and Translating in Public Services and Institutions is a manual which addresses the com...

The record of any American President attracts attention, but Barack Obama, the first African-American president in the nation's 240-year history, i...

This memoir attempts to capture the humor and sheer incongruity of working across cultures in an international career spanning diplomacy and educat...

An unprecedented number of folklorists are addressing issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality in academic and public spaces in the US, raising...

From farm-to-table restaurants and farmers markets, to support for fair trade and food sovereignty, movements for food-system change hold the promi...

An unprecedented number of folklorists are addressing issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality in academic and public spaces in the US, raising...

A comprehensive discussion and analysis of two and a half millennia of Western political theory In the absence of noble public goals, admired leade...

American cities have experienced a remarkable surge in convention center development over the last two decades, with exhibit hall space growing fro...

This edited collection examines the changing character of military professionalism and the role of ethics in the twenty-first-century military. The...

In an industry of higher education that measures the longevity of its leading institutions in decades and centuries, the establishment and rapid gr...

Secrets and Leaks examines the complex relationships among executive power, national security, and secrecy. State secrecy is vital for national sec...

Contents: Acknowledgments. I. Introduction. II. The Primary Groups and Politics. III. Experiments and the Political Process: 1. The Culture of the ...

Cities, counties, school districts and other local governments have suffered a long-lasting period of fiscal challenges since the beginning of the...

Professor Bunce assesses the impact of changes in leadership on priorities in policy within the Soviet bloc and western democratic states during th...

Contents: Acknowledgments. I. Introduction. II. The Primary Groups and Politics. III. Experiments and the Political Process: 1. The Culture of the ...

This book determines that watershed protection and restoration in the 21st century requires adaptive and responsive strategies that incorporate reg...

William Bacchus warns that the American Foreign Service is in serious danger of being unable to meet changing responsibilities unless it reforms it...

In Bureaucracy’s Masters and Minions: The Politics of Controlling the U.S. Bureaucracy, the author argues that political control of the bureaucracy...

This volume presents an analysis of Japan's powerful upper bureaucracy in the post-war period. The author's aim is to provide an empirical foundati...

National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there rema...

The Consequences of Governance Fragmentation explains the ongoing legacy of Milwaukee’s longstanding school voucher policy. The book details the e...

Higher education in the United States and elsewhere is being forced to respond to several disparate social and economic pressures: social trust and...

Often described as complex, opaque and unfair, the EU budget financing system is an “unfinished journey.” One of the most critical issues is that E...

Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especiall...

In a time of austerity, the U.S. government’s reliance on the private sector for a range of services has declined for two consecutive years. Even s...